Atiku: APC will investigate missing $50 billion from crude oil sales

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has assured that an All Progressives Congress (APC) administration will probe the alleged missing $50 billion from the sale of crude if it wins next year’s presidential elections.

“Let no one get confused. The APC is the party to stop the looting of the treasury. We will thoroughly investigate and uncover whatever is missing of the alleged 50 Billion Dollars stolen from the sale of crude oil. We are going to stop the government-backed theft of crude oil which swings between the daily averages of 100,000 to 300,000 barrels a day. APC is the party to create jobs and end joblessness,” the former Vice President said.

Atiku in a statement yesterday while responding to an alleged linkage of the APC with the Boko Haram sect by a Russian spy, said the PDP is only using the tactics of divide and rule which he described as a reflection of desperation by the ruling party.

Dismissing the allegations of harbouring extremists by the opposition as ‘utter rubbish and sheer fabrication,’ the former Vice President said the PDP administration should attend to serious national problems crying for attention.

He expressed surprise that a PDP administration that has a moral burden of accounting for billions of dollars of national revenues mysteriously missing should divert public attention by seeking refuge in the pastime of accusing the opposition leaders of harbouring extremists or sponsoring terrorism.

“The PDP has officially and publicly through its national publicity secretary, labeled APC the “Islamic Brotherhood Party of Nigeria” and the “Janjaweed Party,” nomenclatures he said, were borrowed from abroad and did not in any way or form exist in Nigeria.

He said the latest publication about a so-called former Russian spy is a continuation of the PDP campaign of calumny against the opposition party and its leaders in order to divert attention from the epic failures of the ruling party to deliver the goods.